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Annual CURO Symposium highlights undergraduate research across disciplines

A sign for the CURO Symposium poster session stands in a hallway with an arrow pointing to the right.
Emma Auer
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WUGA
A sign for the CURO Symposium poster session in the Classic Center on Monday, April 20th, 2026.

Nearly 1,000 undergraduate students at the University of Georgia will present their research Monday and Tuesday in Athens.

The downtown Classic Center bustled with activity as the Center for Undergraduate Research hosted its 27th annual CURO symposium Monday.
Students from over 200 majors are set to present their research Monday and Tuesday.

Nathan Haynes is a fourth-year majoring in philosophy and English. His paper on the study of literature and artificial intelligence won the CURO Symposium Best Paper Award in Arts, Humanities, and Media.

“We have this new uncertainty that we’ve never had before in history that this text especially in a creative way it’s not been generated by a human, which is a really big issue for how we start reading texts,” he said. “But in some ways, it lets us think about the middle moment, the technology that has always enabled our writing, whether it’s pencils or computers, and now AI, and it lets think about how that mediation affects our thought.”

Haynes presented his paper Monday afternoon. Student presentations will continue Tuesday, April 21st.

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